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How to Make Websites and Content
How to Make Websites and Content
What You’ll Find Here
How hidden incentives shape recommendations, and where web hosting cuts corners. Worth reading first, since it’s where this course’s reasoning comes from.
25 free tutorials, start to finish. The big choices behind it (domain, hosting, platform, and email) are laid out in Course Decisions, including why domain and hosting are taught separately instead of bundled. Skim it before starting, or jump in and come back to it later.
Same five chapters as the course (Setup, Explore, Build, Create, Earn), but standalone tutorials outside the core 25. For things outside a structured curriculum: extra tools, edge cases, and techniques not essential to the main course.
Free tools and templates made for this course, ready to use on their own, no tutorial required.
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Domain
This course keeps domain and hosting separate — most hosts can register a domain too, but bundling them means the host controls both, and untangling later gets messy fast. Some hosts just make leaving inconvenient; others register the domain in their own name entirely. Separation also matters if a host is acquired, changes ownership, or shuts down — none of that touches an independently registered domain. That’s why registration is taught through Namecheap instead: straightforward pricing, full control over where the domain points, and years of reliable, hands-on use — no host cooperation required, and nothing tying the two together that shouldn’t be.
Hosting
Shared hosting’s out — too many sites competing for the same limited resources, and any one of them having a bad day can slow the rest down with it. Since this course builds on WordPress, managed WordPress hosting is the natural fit — a site’s own resources, not a shared pool, and nobody handing you a server to run yourself either. Because budgets and project demands aren’t one-size-fits-all, this course walks you through two managed WordPress hosts, both running on fast Google Cloud infrastructure: Templ (templ.io) for an entry-level, lower-cost starting point, and Kinsta for bigger needs and higher-tier plans.
Templ.io gives new and smaller sites an affordable way onto Google Cloud (starting at $15/month with a 10-day free trial), complete with server-level WordPress caching, automatic daily backups, free SSL, and responsive support without cutting corners. Kinsta steps in when you want more headroom and higher-tier infrastructure (starting at $35/month with the first month free), giving each site its own isolated container alongside Cloudflare Enterprise edge caching included by default across 300+ global locations so pages stay fast for visitors wherever they are. Pick whichever fits your budget and goals — either way, you set it up once, and nothing is left bolted on or half-configured once the tutorial’s done.
Platform
This course teaches website-building through WordPress — it powers a massive share of the web, so there’s already a plugin, tutorial, or forum thread for nearly anything you’ll eventually run into, instead of hitting a dead end on a smaller platform. It scales with ambition — a simple site today, something far bigger down the road, all without switching tools or starting over. That flexibility is also why so much support and documentation exists around it, more than any other platform, so help is always close by if you ever need it. And it happens to line up neatly with both hosts taught in this course — each specializes in WordPress specifically, on top of already being solid Google Cloud hosting either way.
Email at your own domain reads more professional than a free Gmail address — and that matters most early on, when every extra signup and password is one more thing standing in the way of just getting the site up. Proton Mail is the pick here: one login covers email, a password manager, calendar, and cloud storage, instead of stitching together separate free tools with separate passwords and separate points of failure, each one another spot where something can go wrong right when things need to go smoothly, and one less thing standing between you and actually finishing what you started — no half-set-up account left behind once the rest of the site is live.
Chapter One (Setup)
Every site needs a foundation, and this chapter builds it: a domain, hosting connected to that domain, a login for each person who needs one, and an email address that matches the site. Each lesson is short and hands-on, and each one sets up the next. By the end, there’s a live WordPress site on a domain of its own, with professional email through Proton Mail, ready for Chapter Two.
The order builds on itself. The domain comes first, followed by two hosting options on Google Cloud — Templ.io for an entry-level, lower-cost plan and Kinsta for higher-tier needs — each covering how to connect the domain to the site, since the host supplies the information that step needs. WP Users and email follow after, since email uses the same DNS panel for its setup.
Domain and hosting are deliberately kept separate. Bundling them gives one company control of both, and separating them keeps the choice yours if a host ever needs to change — including if you start out on Templ and scale up to Kinsta down the road.
In this chapter
- A. Domain → register the site’s address, separate from the host
- B. Hosting (Templ.io) → set up entry-level Google Cloud WordPress hosting on Templ and point the domain at it
- C. Hosting (Kinsta) → set up higher-tier Google Cloud WordPress hosting on Kinsta and point the domain at it
- D. WP Users → create and manage WordPress user accounts
- E. Domain Based Email → set up email at the site’s own domain with Proton Mail
Chapter Two (Explore)
With the site live, this chapter is a guided tour of the WordPress dashboard. Each lesson covers one area: how to get around, which settings matter, where media lives, and how themes, plugins, and widgets change what a site does and how it looks. By the end, the dashboard stops feeling like a maze, and every menu has a purpose.
The focus is on what to change and what to leave alone. WordPress ships with plenty of options that never need touching, and knowing which ones are safe to skip saves a lot of time and second-guessing.
In this chapter
- A. Navigating WordPress → find your way around the dashboard and see how a bare site differs from a fully built one
- B. Settings → what to change and what to skip
- C. Media Library → upload, organize, and reuse images and files
- D. Themes → how themes work and what they control
- E. Plugins → how plugins work and how to add one
- F. Widgets → how widgets work and where they show up
Chapter Three (Build)
This chapter turns an empty site into a structured one. Pages and posts come first, then the way they nest, how categories and tags organize content, and how menus tie it all together. Bricks Builder comes last, once the structure is in place, so the design work has something solid to sit on.
Structure before design is deliberate. A site that is organized well is easier to build, easier to navigate, and easier to change later.
In this chapter
- A. Pages & Posts → the two building blocks of every WordPress site
- B. Nested Pages → organize pages into parents and children
- C. Cats & Tags → sort content so visitors and search engines can follow it
- D. Menus → build the navigation visitors actually use
- E. Bricks Builder → design pages visually on the canvas
Chapter Four (Create)
A site needs content, and this chapter covers making it: AI assistants for writing and ideas, an asset library for images, video, and sound, AI voiceovers and music, and video editing in DaVinci Resolve. The tools are mostly free or affordable, and no prior experience is required.
AI speeds up the work but doesn’t replace judgment. Each lesson shows where these tools help, where they fall short, and how to keep the result sounding like it came from a person with something to say.
In this chapter
- A. LLMs & GenAI → use AI assistants for writing, research, and images
- B. Envato Elements → one subscription for stock footage, music, graphics, and templates
- C. AI Voiceovers → add narration without recording a voice
- D. AI Music → generate original tracks for videos and projects
- E. Video Editing → cut, polish, and export a finished video in DaVinci Resolve
Chapter Five (Earn)
The last chapter covers turning a site into income, starting with a realistic look at what making money online involves. Affiliate marketing, brand deals, and e-commerce follow, each with the real tradeoffs, so there is nothing to discover later that should have been mentioned up front.
Honesty runs through this chapter the same way it runs through the rest of the site. Affiliate links are labeled, recommendations come with a non-affiliate option, and nothing here promises results that depend on luck.
In this chapter
- A. Before Making Money Online → what to know first, including what is realistic
- B. Affiliate Marketing → earn commissions and keep readers’ trust
- C. Brand Deals → work with companies on sponsored content
- D. E-Commerce → sell products directly from the site
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